Community members have been asked to contribute inputs to district assemblies for the preparation of budgets.
The Budget Analyst of the Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region, Mr. Damma Mumuni made the call at a budget forum…
The Kasoa District Police Command has put in measures to help curb the rising incidence of robbery and other crimes in the area.
As part of the measures anyone in possession of a gun or any ammunition has to notify the police especiall…
District Directors of Education from 14 selected districts in the Northern Region, have committed themselves to improve the falling standard of education in the area.
They have therefore laid down plans to be executed every year to r…
Mr. Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education, has noted that the development of the youth as future leaders is very crucial, in the current fast and increasingly complex world in order to keep pace with new trends.
He said Ghana as a …
When Ramzi entered the 15th year of his life, he accepted his father's request to quit school and start making money to help his family make ends meet.
Yet, little did Ramzi know then that the career his father chose for him was begg…
The Kasoa Police has urged the public to look out and arrest the driver of a KIA Cargo Truck with registration number GW 2160 W, which was stolen from the Kasoa Police station, a few days ago.
This was in wireless message,issued by th…
Police of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have taken control of the town of Dongo in Equateur province, where a clash between two tribes killed dozens of officers coming to
intervene last month, the authorities announced on Sunday…
A strange rainstorm on Saturday ripped-off roofs of six commercial stores in the Hohoe Township, opposite the Coca Cola Depot, destroying items worth thousands of cedis.
The storm, which lasted for about twenty minutes, destroyed it…
Good posture may promote self-assurance and inspire confidence, a new study suggests.
"Most of us were taught that sitting up straight gives a good impression to other people," Richard Petty, co-author of the study and a
psychology…
U.S. researchers have developed new tools that can help scientists visualize how bacteria talk to one another. By using natural product MALDI-TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption
Ionization-Time of Flight) imaging mass spectrometry, res…
Floods and heavy rain in Eastern and Southeastern Mexico had caused at least 90 oil and natural gas wells to stop working, Mexican authorities reported Sunday.
Fernando Flores, manager of the Integral Asset of state-run oil company Petro…
Sri Lankan weather experts asked the public on Sunday to take precautionary action to minimize the impact of possible lightning attacks during the prevailing inter monsoon season of the country. Head of the Physics Department of the Colomb…
The Asia-Pacific region has become the largest victim of climate change as roughly 70 percent of the natural disasters, believed to be caused by global warming, struck this region, a regional forum report said Sunday.
Climate change is b…
A team of youth is heading to Mt. Qomolangma (also known as Mt. Everest) base camp this week to collect signatures for a petition demanding immediate action on climate change impacts, local media reported Sunday.
Nepalese Youth for Clima…
Mrs. Cate Bob Milliar, the Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Women, has expressed worry about the non involvement of women in peace building and conflict management in northern
Ghana She said though Ghana, in response to …
Seventeen facilitators who handled adult literacy classes in the Kwaebibirem District, have been rewarded for their voluntary work.
They were each presented with a packet of roofing sheets each. Ten of the facilitators handled 228 le…
Management of the Customs Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS), has been asked to build the capacity of its staff for the proper running of the Service.
Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, who made the call, also urge…
Soil scientists have warned of worsening food
insecurity in the next decades unless pragmatic measures were adopted to enhance soil productivity by minimising the effects of changing weather patterns.
Quoting from the Intergovernme…
Mrs Gladys Amaning, Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, has asked Ghanaians to support government's efforts at promoting science and technology education.
This, she said, is because science and technology has always been the basis…
Pupils of the Ridge Basic School in Kumasi, have
donated items and a cheque for GH¢500.00 to the inmates of the Garden City Special School for the
mentally retarded.
The items included clothing, shoes, detergents, rice, biscuits a…
Dr George Oduro, Chairman of Takoradi Polytechnic Council on Friday asked the Students Representative Council and other bodies on campus to use dialogue as a tool to address all internal
conflicts.
He said the local unionised worke…
Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, the Inspector General of Police, was on Saturday a centre of admiral attention as he was awarded Executive Masters in Business Administration with Human Resource Management option, at a congregation held at Legon by t…
The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education, Mr Paul Effah has assured the country's tertiary institutions that government will deliver on its mandate of producing skilled manpower for the nation's growth.
He s…
Mrs Nancy Thompson, Headmistress of the Ebenezer
Senior High School at Dansoman, has called on student associations in the country to contribute
meaningfully to the development of their former schools.
She said the role of former …
President John Fiifi Atta Mills has vowed to ensure that the security agencies are adequately equipped to sustain the fight to significantly bring down armed robbery in the country.
He said there is no way the Government would allow misc…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Saturday gave the assurance that government will "share the limited funds judiciously" to ensure the delivery of quality tertiary education despite current economic pressures, to achieve its vision of a …
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Saturday announced government's intention to establish a public University of Energy and Natural Resources in the Brong-Ahafo Region, to fulfil a pledge in the manifesto of the National Democratic Congre…
Sita Khanal, a 10-year-old girl orphaned by war and deserted by her mother, is not deserted by the society. An orphan's home has taken over the task of bringing her up.
Sita became parentless at the age of four when her father Rajend…
Dressed in black school uniform and on way to school together with a dozen classmates, Farida voiced her hope to serve her war-torn motherland.
"Afghanistan has suffered tremendously from war over the past three decades. Her wounds n…
The British's decision to ban a Malaysian palm oil advertisement has drawn attention from Malaysian officials, local media reported here on Friday.
Malaysian Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Jacob Sagan was quoted as re…
Fort Hood Army Base in the U.S. state of Texas
reopened Thursday evening, several hours after a shooting attack left 12 people dead and 31
wounded, the U.S. department of defense said.
U.S. President Barack Obama lamented the "horr…
The Eastern Regional Population Officer, Mr Kofi Abinah, has called on the government to increase resources for the promotion of reproductive health as a means of helping to protect women and vulnerable children against the negative effect…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will on
Tuesday organise Voluntary Testing and Counselling (VCT) on HIV for media personnel as part of activities to usher in this year's World AIDS Day,
which falls on December 1.
A statem…
Delegates at a conference of the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) have called on women to press for the removal of clauses that prevented them from discovering their potentials.
They said reserved positions such as treasurer and vi…
Education authorities in the Amansie West District have raised concern about the increasing rate at which school children at the basic level in the area are getting pregnant.
Ms Cecilia Ama Serwaah, the District Co-ordinator of Gir…
Pastor Anthony Kessie, President of the South Ghana Conference of Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA), has broken the ground for the construction of 2,000 capacity auditorium estimated at 500,000 Ghana Cedis for SDA Senior High School at Go…
Dr George Mawusi Afeti, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) has urged the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) to be more
influential in matters of education at all leve…
The Vodafone Rewards Promotion suffered an
anti-climax on Friday because the owner of the number drawn for the ultimate one million-dollar reward, 0203933311, could not be reached.
Several attempts by the host of the draw, Fiifi Bam…
Lack of vital information about social security and
end of service benefits, is compelling most workers to make uninformed decisions on pension.
The National First Trustee of the Ghana Trade Union Congress (TUC) Mr. Santos Beyogle wh…
Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice Chancellor
of the University of Ghana, said the educational institution's aim of enrolling more students in the Science than the humanities might become a
mirage.
He observed that challenges…
Mr Kwabena Akyeampong, Deputy Minister of Tourism, on Saturday said the 2010 Miss Black USA Pageant to be hosted by Ghana had prospects which would enhance the country's socio-economic agenda.
He said the tourism sector was currently…
Five people out of the 10 who were infected with rabies died at health institutions in the Upper East Region within the past two months.
The 10 people were all bitten by dogs and were sent to the hospitals after they had started show…
The National Media Commission (NMC) has asked the Board of Directors of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to recall the Director-General, Mr William Ampem-Darko, to resume duty immediately.
A letter to the Board Chairman signed b…
A 29-year-old unemployed has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for defilement.
Yaw Addo, a married man, pleaded guilty to defiling a 12-year old school pupil.
Police Chief Inspecto…
Nestle Ghana Duchess Club, a women social group, has launched a malaria and nutrition in pregnancy outreach programme at Nyinase in Nkoranza South District of Brong Ahafo.
The programme aims at sensitizing the people about the dangers …
The local consumption and export of bush meat generates a total of $300 million dollars into the Ghanaian economy every year, an official of the Forestry Commission told the GNA in Accra.
Mr. Samuel Afari Dartey, Acting Chief Execut…
A coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGO) working to ensure that a global deal on climate change is reached, has petitioned oil rich Saudi Arabia to be proactive to facilitate the process.
The Abibiman Foundation, Green- Lif…
The weather will be cloudy in the morning over places and becoming hot and sunny with few clouds later in the day.
A 24-hour forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Agency on Friday said there would be isolated cases of thunderstorms or…
A Kumasi Circuit Court has remanded two persons for stealing three cell phones belonging to a scrap dealer.
Mohammed Zaribin, 19, unemployed, and Kwaku Hagan, 35, a scrap dealer, face additional charge of stealing cash of GH¢500 from Abdu…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, on Thursday lauded the increase in food production in the Northern parts of the country, particularly the production of rice.
The committee urged the Minister…